I would be ok with it being the default. The reason for it not being the default is that this was created before conventionalcommits.org existed so we didn't really know what convention would "win". I would be ok with a major version that makes it the default when initializing. I think it would be a good change so long as we still allow for people to define alternative adapters.

@dmwelch should I open a new issue for proposing this change?

Sorry, I was thinking this would go into the development backlog for the next major release. I'll reopen it and tag it as such.

Okay, I just found that cz-conventional-changelog is already the default adapter. The problem with:

If your repo is NOT Commitizen friendly:

If you're not working in a Commitizen friendly repository, then git cz will work just the same as git commit but npx cz will use the streamich/git-cz adapter. To fix this, you need to first make your repo Commitizen-friendly

Is that:

1. npx cz was used to be npx git-cz, and git-cz on NPM points to streamich's.

2. $ npx cz
   command not found: cz

3. Instead of falling back to the normal git commit, we should proceed using the default adapter.

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